MIT Technology Review - object manipulationhttp://www.technologyreview.com/tagged/object-manipulation/
enA Robot That Learns to Use Toolshttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/410405/a-robot-that-learns-to-use-tools/
<p>By shoving objects around on a table, UMan figures out how they work.</p><p>To assist humans around the house, robots will need to be able to deal with the unfamiliar. But while researchers can preprogram robots to do increasingly sophisticated tasks, they face a much bigger challenge in teaching them to adapt to unstructured environments. A robot developed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, however, is able to learn to use objects that it has never encountered before. </p>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0000digitalservices410405 at http://www.technologyreview.com